The Robe | |
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Directed by | Henry Koster |
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Based on | The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas |
Produced by | Frank Ross |
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Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
Edited by | Barbara McLean |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 135 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $4.1 million[1] – $4.6 million[2] |
Box office | $36 million (United States)[3] |
The Robe is a 1953 American fictional Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that is responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus. The film was released by 20th Century Fox and was the first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope.[4] Like other early CinemaScope films, The Robe was shot with Henri Chrétien's original Hypergonar anamorphic lenses.
The film was directed by Henry Koster and produced by Frank Ross. The screenplay was adapted from Lloyd C. Douglas's 1942 novel by Gina Kaus, Albert Maltz, and Philip Dunne—although Maltz's place among the blacklisted Hollywood 10 led to his being denied his writing credit for many years. The score was composed by Alfred Newman, and the cinematography was by Leon Shamroy. The cast stars Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Michael Rennie, and co-stars Jay Robinson, Dean Jagger, Torin Thatcher, Richard Boone, Betta St. John, Jeff Morrow, and Ernest Thesiger, among many others.
A sequel, 1954's Demetrius and the Gladiators, picks up right where The Robe ends.[5]